Student injured on UI climbing wall

Apparatus closed at Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

10:54 PM,
Nov. 12, 2012

University of Iowa assistant director for recreation services David Patton, top, and student-employee Austin Sandler demonstrate the use of a rock-climbing wall July 30, 2010, during a media tour of UI's new Campus Recreation & Wellness Center.

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Adam B Sullivan
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

It's unclear what went wrong in an incident that sent one University of Iowa student to the hospital with serious injuries and closed the campus rock climbing wall indefinitely.

UI student Spencer Bean was using the 50-foot rock climbing wall about 10 p.m. Friday at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center when he fell about 30 feet to the ground, according to a UI Department of Public Safety report.

Bean is listed in an online directory as a UI business student and an employee in UI's recreation services department. The directory listing says Bean lives in Iowa City and his hometown is ...